Elon Algorithm — cut AI slop, keep what's load-bearing

AI output is additive: it pads, hedges, over-explains, and invents requirements nobody asked for. Elon's algorithm is subtractive — the exact antidote. This skill runs it on any artifact and hands you a cut-plan to review.

The algorithm (the per-artifact filter)

1. Question every requirement — trace each part back to a real ask. If no human/prompt asked for it, it's a cut candidate. Requirements the model invented and stated confidently are the most dangerous.
2. Delete — default to removing; you add back only the ~10% that something concrete breaks without.
3. Simplify what survives.

(Steps 4–5, accelerate and automate, are about the factory, not the part — out of scope for a single-artifact pass.)

How the workflow works

It clones the artifact first (the original is never touched), then runs four phases: